Re: VI* on VMS

On 2024-10-22, Hunter Goatley <goathunter@goatley.com> wrote:

On 10/21/2024 10:46 PM, Dennis Boone wrote:

  > PS: The only place I use vi is on my phone and that is only because you
  > need a proper keyboard to use emacs.
 
On Android, Hackers Keyboard will do what you need.

>

Hmmm, looks like it's time once again for me to review the versions
of Emacs available for Android. Thanks. (Seriously. :-))

The last time I looked at this a few years ago, the Emacs version
available required a hardware keyboard to work instead of the Hacker's
Keyboard soft keyboard vi is quite happy with.

Unfortunately, I just searched for that on my phone, and Play Store is
telling me, "This app isn't available for your device because it was
made for an older version of Android."
>
The GitHub site has an old warning of this future possibility.
>

I hate this kind of arrogant crap from Google. :-(

In my case, I have used the Hacker's Keyboard on every Android device
I own or have ever owned and it continues to work so far. I have the
standalone APK (ie: not installed via Google Play), which I install
after enabling the untrusted install option in Developer Tools on the
device.

I am currently running it on an Android 12 device. I _really_ hope I also
don't have to start looking for a replacement for the Hacker's Keyboard
as well because Google breaks some API it needs in a future Android version.

BTW, from Android 14, Google are also stopping you from outright installing
some perfectly working older APKs unless you install them via adb and they
are also planning to further restrict which older APKs which can be
installed in future Android versions.

Simon.

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